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Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory
  • Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects
  • Ian Gilligan
  • Published online:
    29 November 2018
    Print publication:
    13 December 2018
  • Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory, Ian Gilligan offers the first complete account of the development of clothing as a response to cold exposure during the ice ages. He explores how and when clothes were invented, noting that the thermal motive alone is tenable in view of the naked condition of humans. His account shows that there is considerably more archaeological evidence for palaeolithic clothes than is generally appreciated. Moreover, Gilligan posits, clothing played a leading role in major technological innovations. He demonstrates that fibre production and the advent of woven fabrics, developed in response to global warming, were pivotal to the origins of agriculture. Drawing together evidence from many disciplines, Climate Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory is written in a clear and engaging style, and is illustrated with nearly 100 images.

Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
  • Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine
  • Edited by Peter Jordan, Kevin Gibbs
  • Published online:
    19 November 2018
    Print publication:
    07 March 2019
  • Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.

  • Chapter Four - Craft, Practice, and Social Boundaries

  • from Part I - Butchery as Craft and Social Praxis
  • Krish Seetah, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies
    Published online:
    08 October 2018
    Print publication:
    25 October 2018, pp 45-64
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